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3. Then there was the one about Jeremy Corbyn and Stephen Hawking

The renowned physicist had a pop at Jeremy Corbyn yesterday, branding him a “disaster” and calling on him to step down.

This afternoon, Phil jibed: “ Jeremy Corbyn is now so far down a black hole that even Stephen Hawking has disowned him”

4. He compared Labour to a ‘driverless vehicle’

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In a gag that was not written in to the official text of his speech, Hammond had a poke at Corbyn’s leadership.

He said: “£270 million to keep the UK at the forefront of disruptive technologies like biotech, robotic systems and driverless vehicles - a technology I believe the party opposite knows something about.”